Enabling SNMP

SNMP stands for the Simple Network Management Protocol, a standard protocol enabling SNMP clients to query status information on machines that support SNMP.

This recipe describes how to enable the SNMP service in pfSense.

How to do it...

  1. Browse to Services | SNMP.
  2. Check Enable SNMP Daemon.
  3. Leave Polling Port set to the default of UDP 161.
  4. Specify a System Location.
  5. Specify a System Contact.
  6. Specify a Read Community String. The community string is roughly equivalent to a password and changing its value will ensure only authorized SNMP clients will be able to query the SNMP information from this machine.

    Note

    Be aware that SNMPv2 lacks encrypted connections.

  7. Select the SNMP Modules to be queried.
  8. Save the changes.

How it works...

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